Minimum VFR Flight In Forest Fire Smoke - Give Hope Wings Expedition Episode #1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Minimum VFR Flight In Forest Fire Smoke - Give Hope Wings Expedition Episode #1
This flight is part of the Give Hope Wings Fundraiser in support of Hope Air.
I'm flying in a 2,086nm fundraiser for Hope Air, an organisation that helps lower income Canadians or those who live in remote areas access healthcare by providing flights (through private pilots and airlines) to larger urban centres.
If you wish to donate to Hope Air: support.hopeai...
To learn more about the Hope Air Charity: hopeair.ca/imp...
But sometimes the best laid plans go sideways when Mother Nature and forest fire smoke get in the way.
⚠️ NOTE: These videos are edited for time and entertainment. Editing removes context and can remove safety checklists in the interest of time. Do not use these videos for, or in lieu of flight training.⚠️
#CanucksUnlimited #GlensHanger
This was a really smokey flight... But I was about to find out that it was only a taste of things to come.
Knowing that I'll never be able to fly due to medical issues, I really appreciate being able to join you viacariously through the youtube (as weird as that is!). Thanks for taking us along, I am sure most of us appreciate your effort.
Are you in America or Canada?
Sault St. Marie has always been a favorite place for me being from Michigan. One of my favorite photographs I have ever taken was from the American side of a bush plane flying over the bush plane museum.
I liked that very much... I am missing flying for search and rescue operation as a spotter... thank you and I will follow you in this trip, for a good cause!
I was a little concerned about the wildfires and am glad you are safe. I know you are careful and experienced.
The auctioneer is our MP Ben Lobb
Smokey here on Vancouver Island, Cameron lake fire is just down the road from me.
Pretty worried about our old growth forest in Cathedral grove.
We lost one of Oregon's premier old-growth stands at Opal Creek in the 2020 fires. I never made it up there to see it, I always thought there was plenty of time to get around to it. I hope the fire spares yours.
I like how wide yall's center lines are up there.
Wow... this was exciting. That smog really puts the senses to test eh? That last bit for next episode is interesting. Can't wait for the next ep.
I really love this your new dashboard
There have been large fires burning in northern Saskatchewan for about a month as well. It has been bad on and off. I was forced to descend pretty significantly from my planned altitude on a cross country Friday afternoon.
You're a braver man than I...4 SM vis is below my personal minimum-but glad you were able to participate just the same! Going to start my Multi/IFR later this month or early next.
It is my minimum - the next day the wind changed and the vis went down while in flight and I diverted.
@@GlensHangar admittedly, I haven’t flown a glass panel either…I’m hoping that opportunity presents in the very short future
It was very smoky in Sault Ste. Marie that day. Glad that the flight went well! Awesome that you got to visit the Bushplane Museum. Great place!
Love the Bushplane Museum.
This is the first time you have flowin into an airport that I have been to
Very cool.
Thats awesome! My buddy Nic who is based out of Goderich sent me a picture of your plane there and said he was talking to ya. I would have loved to have been there but had to work.
Went to undergrad at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mi. It is beautiful up there! Hope you enjoyed the trip!
I wonder if that ship at 18:20 is the Arthur M. Anderson. The last ship to see and be in contact with the SS Edmund Fitzgerald that sank back in 1975. Looks like it.
Interesting. I fly a 1955 Cessna 180 and like others have said, my left tank drains faster than the right. And yup, the left tank has the vent tube.
I'd like to send out my condolences if you knew the pilots who lost their lives in a crash at my hometown airport Jamestown New York KJHW that were based out of your hometown airport this last week. A tragedy for all.
Thanks for sharing the flights in such conditions. Normally I just stay on the ground. As for flying over water, I always don my lifejacket on the ground if im flying over water as I doubt my ability to put it on in flight while managing an emergency and maintain proper control of the aircraft, especially as a single pilot at lower altitudes.
The crossings were short, and land was always well within glide.
Thanks!
This episode should have been dedicated to *Jimi Hendrix* due to the *PURPLE HAZE* - - -LOL
Thanks Glen. I don't fly, but I enjoy watching you.
im in northern illinois in the US i went up the other day i pretty much stayed at 2500 ft dident want to go any higher was pretty much in the hazy cause of the smoke my visability was pretty much like yours
Hey Glen thanks for the video .I loved your flight . I fly in microsoft Flight sim . Iv'e been flying in the simulator for some time almost 10 years .
Bushplane Museum, you will love it .
So cool thank you for sharing
Glen if you did happen to land in Maine, we wouldn’t have minded.
Great content and cause.
What is your procedure if you need to land and your radio stops working?
Horrible flying conditions, those raging fires are awful wishing everyone to be safe and the fires in Canada to end from a UK viewer.
Welcome to Southern Oregon (smoky)
The smoke is reaching into the states as well. NYC got it pretty bad.
When are you going to be in maine?
Been smokey here in jersey for a week. North east PA. worse
Intense flight. What is the fuel situation at CYOO?
I didn't encounter any fuel trouble along the way - I have heard from other pilots that some airports had delivery trouble and 100LL is in short supply. Oshawa seems to be fine, as was Sault, Elliot Lake, Sudbury, and Kingston.
I also have the MoGas STC on C-FMVU, so ethanol free MoGas is always an option.
When are the fires 🔥 expected to be extinguished? I'm in Chicago so excuse me.
They are huge and out of control - weeks at least, longer if there isn't significant rainfall.
They really aren't actively fighting many of them, just preventive actions to protect infrastructure.
What's the beep beep every time you rotate on takeoff
Angle of Attack/Stall impending alarm. Means the airplane is approaching an attitude/speed combination that is close to a stall.
Are you going to get, or do you currently have, an instrument rating?
I don't have an instrument rating, I've thought about it a few times but C-FMVU isn't equipped. If I come up with the budget to put in the last piece of equipment I may go ahead and IFR train.
Glen: I noticed around 5:45, as you were landing at Goderich, you said "tanks on both". I'm assuming that means that the fuel tank selector is set to use from both tanks. How does this jive with your previous video detailing your engine trouble (th-cam.com/video/ocpjanTCPAY/w-d-xo.html) in which you said you were always going to alternate between the left and right tanks on 30 minute intervals? Is the protocol different for landing than once you're at altitude, and if so why? (I am not a pilot, I know nothing about flying and only a little about engines, this is pure curiosity for me with no judgement of any kind.)
Tanks on Both for take-off and landing is 'best practice', but as soon as I get to cruising altitude I switch to single tank, and switch between every 30 minutes. The idea is that in that initial / last phase of flight maximum available fuel could be needed, and if you've managed the tanks well, there should be no vapour bubbles.
@@GlensHangar Got it! That makes total sense, thank you for taking the moment to explain it.
When on the ground, air and other non-homogenous chemicals in the fuel that may have been 'dissolved', remains dissolved. Soon as you climb to thousands of feet, the low pressure outside means fuel can 'boil' somewhat and the dissolved things (and even the fuel itself) can transform material state and form vapor. This starts off small and can collect and form a bubble which can form a air lock, preventing some or all flow of fuel into the engine. That results in wildly inconsistent fuel-to-air ratios, leading to incomplete burns and misfires. Starved engine midflight is no joke.
But as you near the ground during landing, the pressure increases and risk of airlock is mitigated somewhat. And as you have little safety margins close to the ground, relying on one tank is dangerous.
What cameras did you end up using?
GoPro 9 is what I'm using, except the handheld which is a Sony ZVe1
They're closing schools down here
I didn't know you were a pilit